My father is a cop. The laptops they give them come with fingerprint readers. Most of the time, he simply cannot get into his laptop. The technology isn’t there to let a cop access his computer under a no-stress situation, the technology isn’t there for when you’re grabbing your pistol in the middle of the night in a flop sweat with the wrong hand trying to fend off an attacker.

Guns are supposed to be simple tools. You pull trigger, it goes bang. Every doodad you hang off of the damned things to prevent that is one more failure just waiting to happen.

You know damn well antigunners will pounce on this thing hook, line, and sinker if they find out about it. There'll be talk of "See? It's possible! We should do this to ALL guns!"

The only reason I've always dismissed smart guns (besides being a 'tarded idea) is that there's really no real world example of one. The only one I've heard of was that one that used a ring on the user's finger to unlock, and I haven't heard about it for years.With some of the recent ideas that gun manufacturers should (read: be forced) to invest in additional gun safety features, I would bet money that'll we'll hear about this thing.

Totally agree with you. We had this same conversation in the office the other day because someone uses their fingerprint to log-on to their laptop and it takes them 30-40 seconds to get it recognized every morning.

Disney uses it to ensure that the purchaser of their theme park tickets is the same person using them: it prevents guests from selling the unused days on the cheaper multiday passes. The problem is that the system is slow and frequently regects people unnecessarily.

fingerprint readers don't work with people who don't have readable fingerprints, so anyone who works on the water or with abrasives is S.O.L. I just went through this runabout earlier this week when a government contractor didn't want to issue me an ID because she couldn't get her fingerprint scanner to work on me. Anyone with dishpan hands is going to be S.O.L.

Yep here in Mass we have fingerprint scanners to verify that the LTC being run matches the user. 90% of the time they don't read, so they need your PIN number...which most people just write on the back of their card with a pen!